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Measuring Submicron-Size Fractionated Particulate Matter on Aluminum Impactor Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Bruce A Buchholz ,
Paula Zermeño ,
Hyun-Min Hwang ,
Thomas M Young  and
Thomas P Guilderson
Bruce A Buchholz
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
Paula Zermeño
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA
Hyun-Min Hwang
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
Thomas M Young
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
Thomas P Guilderson
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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Submicron-sized airborne particulate matter (PM) is not collected well on regular quartz or glass fiber filter papers. We used a micro-orifice uniform deposit impactor (MOUDI) to fractionate PM into 6 size fractions and deposit it on specially designed high-purity thin aluminum disks. The MOUDI separated PM into fractions 56–100, 100–180, 180–320, 320–560, 560–1000, and 1000–1800 nm. Since the MOUDI has a low flow rate (30 L/min), it takes several days to collect sufficient carbon on 47-mm foil disks. The small carbon mass (20–200 μg C) and large aluminum substrate (∼25 mg Al) present several challenges to production of graphite targets for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) analysis. The Al foil consumes large amounts of oxygen as it is heated and tends to melt into quartz combustion tubes, causing gas leaks. We describe sample processing techniques to reliably produce graphitic targets for 14C AMS analysis of PM deposited on Al impact foils.

Type
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 52 , Issue 2: 20th Int. Radiocarbon Conference Proceedings , 2010 , pp. 278 - 285
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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